Kuwait recalls envoy from Iran over Saudi row

While Jubeir said these pilgrimages would be not be impacted by the severing of ties, separate sources have said Saudi has closed Iran’s haj office in the kingdom.

“The Secretary is very concerned with the direction this thing is going”, a senior State Department official said. “Enough is enough. We need our peace in the region”.

Kerry has spoken several times in the last few days with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and has also spoken with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubair and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud.

Bahraini officials have since accused Iran of training militants and attempting to smuggle arms into the country, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

Iranian protesters chant slogans as they hold pictures of Shi’ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr during a demonstration against the execution of Nimr in Saudi Arabia, outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran January, 3, 2016.

According to Reuters, the breaking of diplomatic ties will not necessarily have a direct impact on the economies of Iran and Saudi Arabia, which have “minimal” trade and investment ties.

The Saudi money dropped against the United States dollar in the forward foreign exchange market early on Monday, raising concern in the Persian Gulf monarchy that dollar funding for the kingdom could become more expensive, the report said. During his reign, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition fighting Shia rebels in Yemen and staunchly opposed regional Shia power Iran, even as Tehran struck a nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran expressed “regret” over the attacks on the diplomatic missions in a letter to the United Nations on Monday and vowed to arrest those responsible.

In Iran, protesters responded by attacking the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad.

The UAE, a country of seven emirates, has a long trading history with Iran and is home to many ethnic Iranians.

The protests came after on Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed the prominent cleric, among dozens of others.

But a former US diplomat said that that goal might well be elusive, and that it wasn’t just in Syria that the situation might deteriorate.

The move comes after Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties to Iran over the storming of two diplomatic posts in the country following the kingdom’s execution of a top Shiite cleric who was also an opposition figure.

Bahrain has halted all flights to and from Iran a day after it joined Saudi Arabia in severing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic.

But Kurtulmus said: “These are two major Islamic countries for Turkey. I think we have a real risk here that it could destabilize efforts in that regard”. “We have good relations with each of them”.